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By A. Morgan Jones, M.B., F.R.C.P. (London). Price, $1.50. Pp. 57, with 6 tables and 4 plates. Grune & Stratton, Inc., 381 Fourth Avenue, New York 16, 1951.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1951;88(6):848.

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This is a modest monograph which puts together in easily readable form a concise description of current ideas in regard to the management of heart disease in pregnancy.

Beginning with Macdonald's book of 1878, "The Bearings of Chronic Disease of the Heart upon Pregnancy, Parturition and Childbed," it traces the pathways by which knowledge of this complication of pregnancy has been developed since then. A great deal of the advance made has been due to workers in the United States who have studied heart disease in pregnancy by clinical observation and, more recently, by physiologic studies which have revealed the peculiarities of the normal circulation in pregnancy and how these may be modified by an imperfect circulatory apparatus. The result is gratifying. It is pleasant to have on record such a story of progress told in an engaging style. It is pleasanter to learn how modern medicine has added a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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